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Nintendo e-Reader Gets Homebrew Dot-Code Games

Posted by simoniker on from the gotta-love-dem-hackers dept.

figa writes "Tim Schuerewegen announced that the Reed Solomon error correction used by the Nintendo Game Boy Advance e-Reader has been figured out. This was the last remaining obstacle to creating custom dot-code printouts for use with the GBA e-Reader (more info), which scans special Nintendo trading cards to load in mini-games on your Game Boy Advance. This should be a boon to homebrew GBA developers who want to print their own games - Schuerewegen has examples and documentation on his site, and has released a dot-code version of the homebrew BombSweeper game by SnowBro."

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  1. C&D by glam0006 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How fast can you say "cease and desist"?

  2. Who cares about a demo game.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where is the information on the reed solomon code? Get that information out before Nintendo takes this site down. Stupid closed source hackers..

  3. Re:Why? by outofpaper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can you print tiny Roms or magnetic strips? Enh? Enh? Didn't think so. Ok posibly you can but some one just geting into programing for the game boy probably dosn't have a rom writer or a magnetic strip writer (and definetly dosn't have a magnetic strip reader for thier gameboy). Don't kick this for no reason it's neat and fun and if it turns more people on to programing then good for them. If not, atleast some game boy programers can share there games more easly.